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consensu veteranorum, virtute legionum, ne fortuna quidem
fractus minuit audaciam nec ruere demens nec furere desinit.
in Galliam mutilatum ducit exercitum; cum una
legione et ea vacillante1 L. fratrem exspectat, quo neminem
reperire potest sui similiorem. ille autem ex myrmillone
dux, ex gladiatore imperator quas effecit2 strages, ubicumque
posuit vestigium3! fundit apothecas,4 caedit greges armentorum
reliquique pecoris quodcumque nactus est; epulantur
milites; ipse autem se, ut fratrem imitetur, obruit vino;
vastantur agri, diripiuntur villae, matres familiae5, virgines,
pueri ingenui abripiuntur, militibus traduntur. haec eadem,
quacumque exercitum duxit, fecit M. Antonius6.
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